TWO POEMS

                       by

          JUDITH GOLDMAN AND LISA JARNOT

     _Postmodern Culture_ v.4 n.2 (January, 1994)
                 pmc@unity.ncsu.edu

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     ONE

And where did the Dutch get their vocabulary?
A "generation and transition" company make the
water muddy.  Transitional generation in company
of a muddy mere formality:  or was it going Dutch,
in transmission to transition?  A mere formality of Dutch, 
a merely formal vocabulary, to be used "in company"
of Dutch transmissions.  My mission was to dutch
a trans-generation, to formulate transitions.
Or was it going muddy in the company?
I threw mud at mimesis, a mere Dutch formality.
And where did the Dutch get their vocabulary?
Formerly, the Dutch kept company without vocabulary.
My former mission was a mere formality,
but I doubled my Dutch on the company's transmission.

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     TWO

Primitive haze or composite rejection?
Such training requires persistence--
a fateful hour, a stupid wheel, praiseworthy
annals--the main term "reaction" would be 
retained, though searching for innocuous
phenomena.  It was not enough to have
a patternbook, a dictatorship, or to claw walls
looking for paint.  Returning to the decoding end:
you make it more cryptic.  I'll pant effectively.
Roughly, in the rough, we are roughing it.
This happens when I forget to differentiate--
a false proposition of the first order.
Or say: "When you hate maps, you hate the future."
Our lines are at stake in the border.